Growing Up

I know I'm behind on my blogging, but I also knew that I couldn't just skip posting some of these pictures and talking about the kids. They are both growing up so fast and I'm so glad that I get to be with them so much and see all of these things.
While running errands several weeks ago we stopped at All a Dollar and Emily found a hula hoop. She was so excited to buy it with her own money and immediately came home and started trying to learn how to do it. She's done really well and we're very impressed. It's so fun to see her little body move around like that. She is also still loving dance and is doing so well. I can see how much she's learning just in watching her prance around the house all the time. Jacob is still enamored with phones and always curls his hand/arm up with he talks on it. I don't know why kids do that, but it's hilarious.

Emily & Jacob are starting to do more together and play. I love it when I find them laughing at each other and I enjoy watching their relationship develop. I'm so grateful that they have each other. Jacob usually wants to do everything his sister does - which is both good and bad. He is very intrigued whenever Emily has to stand in the corner and in the picture above you can see him trying it out right after Emily had just left it. It always makes me smile to see how much he adores her and wants to be just like her.

We have LOVED having a big window to look out of every day. Jacob and I will watch for Emily after preschool and we'll all watch for daddy when he's coming home from work. The kids will also stand their and wave to Gma & Gpa whenever they leave and I will often find one or both of them just playing on the window seat. I think we'll have plenty of hand prints on the window before Gma & Gpa get back from Russia - and it's going to be hard to give it up when we move.

Jacob is quite the dare devil. He is constantly climbing on things and getting into whatever he can. It is no uncommon thing to find him on the table, bar, or stove. He is frequently pushing chairs or bar stools around the kitchen to reach anything that might be on the counter or using laundry baskets turned over to reach anything in the bedrooms - including all of my jewelry on my dresser. We've realized that nothing is safe from him unless it's behind a closed door... which I don't think is going to last too much longer. One of his favorite past times is being thrown on the love sac - from across the room - and diving off of couches or chairs. Fortunately Gma, Gpa, daddy or the love sac have always been there to catch him, and hopefully always will be. If he ever sees open arms he will go for you - whether you're ready or capable of catching him.

Jacob wanted more corn so of course daddy obliged - by just giving him the whole can.

I'd been debating for a while on what to do about cutting Jacob's hair - I just love the curls in the back. But when we came home from church on Sunday Jeff said it was time to cut it since it looked like a comb-over. I realized that if Jeff was noticing how bad it was, it was time to cut it. So the next day, 2/28, Aunt Stacy came over and gave Jacob his first haircut. He was very good and held still through most of it. I wasn't quite ready to get rid of the curls just yet, so we trimmed up the font and top and left the curls in the back. But even just doing that made him look more grown up.

Jacob wanting to be grown up like daddy